History
Global Payments’ former parent company, National Data Corporation, was founded in 1967. Today, the company services both virtual and “brick-and-mortar” merchants. Global Payments is a member of the S&P MidCap 400 Index and has been an independent, publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol “GPN” since 2001. The Company has offices located throughout the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Europe, Spain, Russia and the Asia-Pacific region to serve consumers, organizations, financial institutions and government agencies that use Global Payments’ acquiring, processing and Internet services. Global Payments Inc. currently processes approximately five billion transactions per year and serves over one and a half million merchant locations through our electronic information network. Global Payments has obtained the necessary licences to start operating in Malta EU, after it bought the acquiring business from HSBC Bank in Malta for approx €11m.
The Company provides processing solutions for:
- Credit and debit cards, Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT), purchasing cards, prepaid gift and loyalty cards and stored value cards
- Terminal management and point-of-sale support services
- Electronic check conversion, check guarantee, verification and recovery services
- Emerging payments
- Business-to-Business payments
Headquartered in Sandy Springs, Georgia, Global Payments’ product and service lines includes acquiring front-end network, point-of-sale applications, merchant processing support and terminal management services, as well as Internet-based solutions, for payment processing and storefront enablement.
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